One-Fifth COVID-19 Patients Are Suffering From Insomnia, Anxiety & Dementia, Finds Lancet Study

A study by Oxford University published in the medical journal, The Lancet, has found that COVID-19 infected patients are suffering from a few psychiatric disorders after testing positive for the infection.

That is nearly one-fifth of the COVID-19 patients.

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The Lancet study reached this conclusion after a research conducted on as many as 69 million individuals, 62,354 of whom had COVID-19.

"Insomnia, dementia and anxiety disorder were most common among people infected with COVID-19, even if they had no previous psychiatric history," said a report by Hindustan Times.

The study found that insomnia, dementia and anxiety disorder were most common among people infected by the coronavirus

Dementia was most common in people above 65 years of age.

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¡°Among anxiety disorders, adjustment disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, and, to a lesser extent, post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder were the most frequent,¡± the study found.

Another worrying study by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in October says autopsies of deceased COVID-19 patients shows evidence of inflammation in the brain.